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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗
I wanted to be a footballer and then a squash player – I was in with a chance because I was very good. But I fell out of love with that by 14 or 15 and joined a youth theatre.
A saint. Then a ballerina.
That rather assumes I have grown up.
A psychologist and then a diplomat.
When my dad died this year.
I was what I call a “nut lifter” in a factory in Enfield. I had to get nuts and bolts from the production line into big tins.
The eradication of poverty would be nice, but at the moment, a double macchiato.
When I came round after being seriously ill. I’d had a dose of morphine, the sun was shining and I thought, “Ah yes, I live!”
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